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Brilliant unintended pun
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Job agency in NZ is advertising for a Technical Adviser.
.Globally recognised dairy manufacturer. .Great team culture. This is almost certainly Fontana who seem to own the dairy market in NZ. I wonder if they only select the cream of the crop and it's hard cheese to all those who fail the interview? Colin -- cdb, on 1/07/2009 -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist |
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Re: Brilliant unintended pun
by Xiaofan Chen
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On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:14 PM, cdb<colin@...> wrote:
> Job agency in NZ is advertising for a Technical Adviser. > > .Globally recognised dairy manufacturer. > .Great team culture. > > This is almost certainly Fonterra who seem to own the dairy market in > NZ. I wonder if they only select the cream of the crop and it's hard > cheese to all those who fail the interview? > I understand the meaning of "the cream of the crop" but I failed to understand what do you mean by "hard cheese". So I asked a few colleagues here and none of them understood it even though one of them is really good at English. So I fired up WordWeb and found it seems to be only used by Brits and mean "bad luck". Interesting pun. -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist |
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Re: Brilliant unintended pun
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:: but I failed to understand what do you mean by "hard cheese". :: seems to be only used by Brits I didn't know that, I thought it was in other English variants. Now I have a quest to find out other British English only phrases. Colin -- cdb, colin@... on 1/07/2009 Web presence: www.btech-online.co.uk Hosted by: www.1and1.co.uk/?k_id=7988359 -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist |
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Re: Brilliant unintended pun
by Alan B. Pearce-2
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>:: but I failed to understand what do you mean by "hard cheese".
> >:: seems to be only used by Brits > >I didn't know that, I thought it was in other English variants. >Now I have a quest to find out other British English only phrases. I would class it as being well known in English speaking countries, specifically those that are part of the British Commonwealth, rather than US-centric countries. The term is a bit more than just 'bad luck', it is self induced bad luck, i.e. you have done something that induced the bad luck situation, although the way Colin used it, it would be just 'tough luck' rather than 'bad luck'. I suspect it dates back to the workers going out to harvest, with their lunch wrapped up. Lunch would typically be bread, cheese and cider. If you didn't wrap the cheese properly it would go hard, and is then almost inedible. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist |
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Re: Brilliant unintended pun
by Xiaofan Chen
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On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Alan B. Pearce<Alan.B.Pearce@...> wrote:
>>:: but I failed to understand what do you mean by "hard cheese". >> >>:: seems to be only used by Brits >> >>I didn't know that, I thought it was in other English variants. >>Now I have a quest to find out other British English only phrases. > > I would class it as being well known in English speaking countries, > specifically those that are part of the British Commonwealth, rather than > US-centric countries. Singapore used to be a British colony and is part of British Commonwealth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations_by_name Even Canada is part British Commonwealth. So I am not so sure what English Speaking Countries qualify as US-centric other than USA. > The term is a bit more than just 'bad luck', it is self induced bad luck, > i.e. you have done something that induced the bad luck situation, although > the way Colin used it, it would be just 'tough luck' rather than 'bad luck'. > > I suspect it dates back to the workers going out to harvest, with their > lunch wrapped up. Lunch would typically be bread, cheese and cider. If you > didn't wrap the cheese properly it would go hard, and is then almost > inedible. Thanks for the explanation. -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist |
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